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Talk set on Democrats, religion, Feb. 13

Posted February 8, 2007; 10:37 a.m.

by Eric Quiñones

"Are Democrats Really 'Anti-Religious?'" is the topic of a lecture by Richard Parker, a lecturer in public policy at Harvard University, set for 4:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in 16 Robertson Hall.

Parker, a University of Oxford-trained economist, has written extensively on economics and public policy. He was co-founder of Mother Jones magazine and has served as a consultant to several Democratic U.S. senators and as an economist for the United Nations Development Program.

Parker currently is a lecturer at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government and a senior fellow of its Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy.

Parker's most recent book, "John Kenneth Galbraith: His Life, His Politics, His Economics" is the first authorized biography of the famed economist. Parker also wrote "The Myth of the Middle Class" and "Mixed Signals: The Future of Global Television News."